Originally Posted by http://digitizor.com/2011/01/25/fedora-15-network-device-naming

Suppose we have two Ethernet devices - eth0 and eth1. It cannot be ensured that eth0 will remain as eth0 and eth1 will remain as eth1 after the next system boot. The names will be allocated arbitrarily.

If You assign a ethX per MAC address everytime at boot at udev level (which is possible even now), You can be sure that naming is consistent ... but hey its Linux, lets rewrite it, shall we?

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This is quite possible the worst idea I've seen in IT since that guy stuck his RJ45 connector in the 110/220 volt switch ...

You mean using udev with MAC for consistent naming or 'The New Better Naming Scheme'?

__________________religions, worst damnation of mankind"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus TorvaldsLinux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”.vermaden's:linksresourcesdeviantartspreadbsd